A truly magical time of year! I just gotta make it to Thursday…..

Say hello to @phoebepetrovic.bsky.social!

And if you haven't, check out Phoebe's introduction to how Christian nationalism took hold in U.S. politics ⤵️

I need you to come to my house for an intervention. I will make you dinner

That green is immaculate. Do you have color details?

Keeping you and sweet Maggie in my thoughts. 🫂

An image of an above ground tomb in a New Orleans cemetery

Honestly obsessed with the cemeteries in New Orleans

Ear huggy looks great

the cover of not like us, big house with a bunch of sex offender alert icons

2025 white house cabinet meeting

Watching the establishment dems move further and further to the right every single election cycle is exhausting.

The newly minted riot grrls give me life as an aging Millennial. They are so cool!!

Here’s one of my main takeaways: the point of governing is to make people’s lives better, but the point of politics - especially campaigns - is to give people a story about who to blame for things sucking. It’s a real mistake to confuse one for the other, as I have often done!

Let’s Move Beyond Blame to Fight for Each Other in the Face of Fascism While principled critiques are often necessary, let’s communicate like people who still need each other — because we do.

My piece on processing our emotions and embracing the work of collective survival, reprinted in Truthout. “Humanity is flawed, but our capacity for kindness, connection, and transformation is real, too. Take solace in decency—it’s still there.”

To Transform Our Trauma, We Must Nurture Movements for Change “PTSD, in many ways, works like a time machine,” says healing justice practitioner Chiara Galimberti.

I have something that might be helpful to you all today. I talked with radical therapist Dorian Ortega and healing justice practitioners Tanuja Jagernauth and Chiara Galimberti about trauma, how movement work affects our brains, and some of the tools and practices that can help us heal.

ALA vows to defend intellectual freedom and access to information against political threats In response to results of the 2024 United States election, the American Library Association vowed to continue its defense of the core values of librarianship in the face of political threats.

ALA vows to defend intellectual freedom and access to information against political threats 📜📚 www.ala.org/news/2024/11...

Big NPC energy 👀

I hope you have a huge print of this framed in your house.

That is terrifying information

"We have a mandate to dismantle the regulatory state - and both the power and the will to do so,"

Is explicitly what they ran on and enough of the US has just always had clean water and safe food and some manor of workplace protection that they categorically do not understand what a threat that is.

This is my sleep paralysis demon.

Text in front of a background of flowers, greenery, and moons. The text reads: in an age of performative cruelty, kindness is punk as fuck. Be punk as fuck

A panel from Watchmen. Doctor Manhattan appears in a kitchen on November 10 as a circulatory system as he is reconstituting himself. Art by Dave Gibbons.

Happy Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to those who celebrate.

I haven't said much since Tues because I didn't have anything helpful to say. How do we keep going when America is sliding into authoritarianism? Then I realized: I've been thinking about this for years. I wrote a whole novel (OUR MISSING HEARTS) looking for ways to keep hope alive in darkness.

Whatever happens, those who have learned to love one another have made their way to the lasting world and will not leave, whatever happens.

This Wendell Berry #poem forever

All public libraries have one or more of the following: free books, free movies (often new releases!), free audiobooks, free e-books, free wifi, free-to-use computers, , free music, free musical instruments, free puzzles, free wall art, free passes to museums and theater, free food, free restrooms..

I needed this today.
You may too.

i know a lot of people are like "live for spite!!!" and i 100% support that if that's what keeps you going but if it doesn't work for you you can live for a variety of reasons, including "read book that isn't out yet", "love", "step on a crunchy leaf", "look at the river", "pat a creature" etc

Just a reminder to support your local public libraries! Write letters of support. Use the library often & in many different ways. Show up to meetings.

Library staff have been begging for help, advocacy, and action for years. Please show up for libraries.

a photo of the side of a cave, some water, trees

I'll be in this cave if you need me